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No Joyman @nojoyman.bsky.social · 3h

I finally understand what Allan Bloom was weeping about in the Closing of the American Mind

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No Joyman @nojoyman.bsky.social · 2d

The correct answer is the quasi recolonization by British commercial interests in the mid 19th century right

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No Joyman @nojoyman.bsky.social · 2d

I had an Argentinian friend in college who told me this old saying: "what god does at night, Argentinians undo during the day"

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No Joyman @nojoyman.bsky.social · 4d

First time in history an invading army will be defeated by a battalion of food trucks

Wesley Morgan @wesleymorgan.bsky.social · 4d

Don’t think these Texas National Guard guys are going to be chasing any immigrants around Chicago on foot

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No Joyman @nojoyman.bsky.social · 5d

I deplore modern innovations (stealing body parts from a medical school) we must RETVRN to tradition (stealing body parts for a medical school)

WBUR @wbur.org · 5d

The Supreme Judicial Court says Harvard failed to adequately supervise its former morgue manager, Cedric Lodge, who admitted to stealing skin, brains and bones of bodies that had been donated to the medical school for students to learn from.

'Extraordinary failure': SJC says lawsuits against Harvard over morgue thefts can move forward

The Supreme Judicial Court says Harvard failed to adequately supervise its former morgue manager, Cedric Lodge, who admitted to stealing skin, brains and bones of bodies that had been donated to the m...

www.wbur.org

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No Joyman @nojoyman.bsky.social · 6d

Damn Osbert Lancaster my mom loves him

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Sen. Pumpkin Gogurt @ugarles.bsky.social · 11d

HEGSETH: *points to general's ribbon bars* "What'd you get that one for? Fucking your mother?"

GENERAL: *sternly* killing vietnamese children

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No Joyman @nojoyman.bsky.social · 12d

Interrupting the War on Halloween to declare a hayseed anathema on the Mormons

Blue check tweet from three days ago that says

The problem with evil Halloween decorations is that they are real, they summon real monsters, they bring forth real beings. It’s not a game. Festivities matter.

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No Joyman @nojoyman.bsky.social · 12d

They're calling it the purest formality they've ever seen. Unbelievable purity of formality folks

A Pure Formality (1994) starring Gerard Depardieu and Roman Polanski

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No Joyman @nojoyman.bsky.social · 14d

EXCUSE ME but I have tenure because I am the world's most special boy and it's my just reward

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No Joyman @nojoyman.bsky.social · 15d

We used to be a proper country

FEMA publication "COVID-19 Pandemic Operational Guidance for the 2020 Hurricane Season"

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No Joyman @nojoyman.bsky.social · 25d

When Prophecy Fails by Leon Festinger

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No Joyman @nojoyman.bsky.social · 25d

Life in Baltimore:

Himbo Deluxe @verylarge.bsky.social · 25d

Tomorrow they're hitting me with a Nissan Altima

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L @banalplay.bsky.social · 27d

Breathless reporting across the industry on unconfirmed reports that Kirk's killer may have once breathed same air particles expelled by a trans person, meanwhile no interest in ironclad proof that yet another school shooter was a Nazi.

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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · Sep 11

i’m not going to be lectured about political violence by people whose politics is violence

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No Joyman @nojoyman.bsky.social · Sep 3

Oi that's me Bri ish parentage leakin out innit

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No Joyman @nojoyman.bsky.social · Sep 3

I would wear a boiler suit at the circulation desk

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No Joyman @nojoyman.bsky.social · Sep 3

Sages in the past tried to convey this experience

George Plimpton in a Bruins goalie uniform

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · Aug 28

I finally read computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum’s 1976 classic “Computer Power and Human Reason.”

This book deserves a massive revival in our current age of grotesque and largely thoughtless AI creep into everything:

JOSEPH WEIZENBAUM
COMPUTER POWER AND HUMAN REASON
FROM JUDGMENT TO CALCULATION

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No Joyman @nojoyman.bsky.social · Aug 27

Tom Clancy's Grundrisse

•pisscauldron• @pisscauldron.bsky.social · Aug 27

ruin any book by adding "tom clancy's" to the title

Tom Clancy's Infinite Jest

Jillian Whitton 🏳️‍⚧️, rising @jillianw.bsky.social · Aug 27

Ruin any book by adding "Tom Clancy's" to the title

Tom Clancy’s Orlando

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No Joyman @nojoyman.bsky.social · Aug 27

This is what they should use online age verification for

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No Joyman @nojoyman.bsky.social · Aug 27

Yeah in fairness to the people running it now, Russell did massively fuck up the book thing's tax situation the man just loved books not paperwork, alas (also drinking)

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No Joyman @nojoyman.bsky.social · Aug 27

A shadow of what it was in Russell's days, alas

Victoria Law @victorialaw.bsky.social · Aug 27

I have such wonderful memories of visiting Book Thing with my daughter in the earlier 2000s. Such a joy to let my bibliophile little girl pick up & take home anything she wanted without worrying about cost. magazine.1000libraries.com/meet-the-man...

Meet the Man Behind Baltimore’s Free Book Movement - Magazine

Discover the story behind one of Maryland’s literary gems, and a lifesaver for many readers in Baltimore and the surrounding area.

magazine.1000libraries.com

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No Joyman @nojoyman.bsky.social · Aug 24

Some of the most valuable commercial real estate in Baltimore sits on a former superfund site in Harbor East lol

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